Anand Eswaran explains why it was important for Veeam to acquire Securiti AI

Anand Eswaran CEO Veeam talks to Global Enterprise Connect’s, Managing Editor Arun Shankar in detail about why it was necessary for Veeam to acquire Securiti AI’s Data Security Posture Management framework and expertise. With the acquisition now completed and Securiti AI’s DSPM framework fully integrated with Veeam’s data resilience solution stack, Eswaran feels the new go to market that has already begun, directed at enterprise CIOs and CISOs will help boost the success of many of today’s global AI projects.

In this interview Eswaran answers a range questions from Shankar with great lucidity and depth.

These questions include:

• What are the current pain points of CIOs, CISOs, and data administrators as they prepare their enterprises for AI adoption and AI maturity?
• With the current focus and emphasis around the suitability of data for AI, what is the value provided by Security AI’s Data Security Posture Management solution?
• How will this acquisition of Security AI help Veeam address the challenge that most AI projects fail due to data issues? How far does Veeam’s current portfolio of products meet end user expectations and where are the gaps?
• Why is inorganic integration preferred by Veeam at this stage with Security AI, when it has built its data resilience platform integrally rather than bolt-on and add-on?
• What are the core competences of Security AI as an ISV and what are the strengths that have led to its current acquisition by Veeam?
• In which areas will Security AI’s Data Security Posture Management solution continue its go to market activities independently and where will it work jointly with Veeam?
• How is Veeam preparing itself for the next era of AI driven data management?
• With all these changes to the product portfolio and points of unique differentiation in the market, who will be your key decision maker going forward?
• Considering all the various push and pull factors in today’s technology enterprise – is there an emergence of a more lucrative buyer for your unified platform?
• Since the channel skills required for Data Security Posture Management are quite different from the legacy Veeam skills of data protection and data resilience, what is the transformation expected from the new breed of Veeam channel partners?
• Are you seeing the large-scale channel and alliance partners moving towards white labelling your solution or will it be through their marketplaces?
• What are the typical skills required by channel partners to manage Data Security Posture Management solutions? What are the certifications required?

Key takeaways

• Veeam has identified three key data crises that are impacting companies as they adopt AI:

#1 A visibility gap where companies lack full understanding of their data landscape, including unstructured data.

#2 A trust gap where data feeding AI models is not properly governed, secured, and compliant.

#3 A resilience gap where companies lack the ability to precisely recover data and models to a safe state if problems occur.

• Veeam saw that addressing these gaps required a unified platform approach that combines data security, privacy, compliance, and resilience.
• Veeam decided to acquire Security AI, the market leader in data security and privacy, in order to build this unified platform quickly and leverage Security AI’s strengths.
• Key strengths of Security AI that Veeam identified include the data command graph visualization, a microservices-based architecture for rapid innovation, and deep connectors to integrate with diverse data sources.
• The primary buyers are expected to be the CIO and CISO working together, as the solution addresses needs across data resilience, security, and AI governance.
• Veeam is also closely partnering with hyperscalers, GSIs, and other cloud-native partners to integrate the unified platform into their solution stacks.

Organisations have been unable to harness the value of unstructured data, including emails, documents, and customer interactions, which represent 70-90% of all enterprise data. Industry studies estimate that 80-90% of AI projects fail , many due to data issues, including accuracy, lineage, permissions, and identity, as well as privacy concerns. Traditional approaches, which involve siloed tools for data security and management, do not reflect new AI threats and force teams into constant trade-offs between security, risk management, and business agility.

The combination of Veeam and Securiti AI dramatically mitigates these trade-offs with a single command centre for all data. It is about identifying all your data, ensuring it is governed and trusted to power AI transparently. This is the single most critical factor in failed AI initiatives. Enterprise AI is simply not possible without data security. Securiti AI solves that and enables the safe use of data and AI.

Securiti AI is the pioneer of the Data Command Centre. Powered by a unique knowledge graph, the Data Command Centre unifies data intelligence and security controls for data across the hybrid multi-cloud. Its built-in and extensible agentic AI framework automates the key functions for data intelligence, data security, and controls, while its Gencore AI module enables safe enterprise AI search. Securiti AI is recognised as a top leader in DSPM, data access governance, AI security, and privacy.

The integration of Securiti AI’s advanced data security platform with Veeam’s robust data resilience platform represents an evolution in how organisations approach protection and governance of their information in an AI-driven landscape. Together, these platforms bridge the gap between security, governance, compliance, and resilience, enabling organisations to achieve a comprehensive, context-rich understanding of their data.

This synergy allows for the identification of what data is truly important, how it is being used, who has access to it, and why – all critical insights for applying precise, effective controls that proactively defend against risk, ensure compliance, and support robust governance.

In the current era, where AI is only as reliable as the data it is built upon, the importance of data accuracy and security is paramount. By unifying data resilience and data security, this integration addresses the complex challenges of data protection in intelligent environments.

In October 2025, Veeam Software, announced its intent to acquire Securiti AI, a recognised vendor in Data Security Posture Management that spans privacy, governance, access, and AI trust across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS platforms. Veeam and Securiti AI unify data resilience with DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust spanning production and secondary data.

With the acquisition of Securiti AI, Veeam eliminates the challenge of managing fragmented data across apps, clouds, SaaS, endpoints, and backups. CIOs, CISOs, and CDOs will have a unified command centre to fully control and understand all their data, as well as secure it with recover and rollback data and AI with precision. This single control plane across production and secondary data enables enterprises to uniformly command their entire data estate.